• Job Seeks Hope

  • 1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; The grave is ready for me.
  • 2 “Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
  • 3 “Establish, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will clap my hand in pledge?
  • 4 “For You have hidden their heart from insight, Therefore You will not exalt them.
  • 5 “He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will come to an end.
  • 6 “But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
  • 7 “My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
  • 8 “The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.
  • 9 “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.
  • 10 “But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
  • 11 “My days are past; my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.
  • 12 “They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
  • 13 “If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
  • 14 If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
  • 15 Where now is my hope? And who beholds my hope?
  • 16 “Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”